Chaos theory as a model for interpreting weblog traffic

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Guo, Xitong ^a   Vogel, Doug ^b   Zhou, Zhongyun ^a   Zhang, Xi ^a   Chen, Huaping ^c  

^a Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c School of Management University of Science and Technology of China He Fei   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIAL CONDITIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

CHAOS THEORY;

EID: 51449098873     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.90     Document Type: Conference Paper

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